Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition vs GeForce GT 220

Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jul 2010
Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
GeForce GT 220
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Jan 2010
GeForce GT 220
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 220

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5670 640SP EditionGeForce GT 220
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper LE)vsG94 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs65 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs240 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs505 million
Shaders640vs48
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock750 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5670 640SP EditionGeForce GT 220
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5670 640SP EditionGeForce GT 220
TDP64 wattsvs58 watts
Release Date18 Jul 2010vs26 Jan 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
    6.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
    24.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    14.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 220
    44.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
    960.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 220
    144.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better